U+10A38 "𐨸" Kharoshthi Sign Bar Above Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𐨸
U+10A38 "𐨸" Kharoshthi Sign Bar Above is a combining diacritical mark used in the Kharoshthi script, an ancient writing system primarily employed in the Gandhara region of South Asia from around the 3rd century BCE to the 3rd century CE. This sign is placed above a consonant or vowel base character to modify its phonetic value, typically representing a nasalization or a specific tonal or length distinction in the language being written, such as Gandhari Prakrit or Sanskrit. It appears in historical manuscripts, inscriptions, and coins, particularly those associated with Buddhist texts and the Indo-Greek or Kushan empires.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+10A38 |
| Version Added | 4.1 |
| Name | Kharoshthi Sign Bar Above |
| Block | Kharoshthi |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Above |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𐨸 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𐨸 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x90 0xA8 0xB8 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD802 0xDE38 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00010A38 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud802\ude38 |